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Employment

Our employment team provides expert but pragmatic advice to both individual clients and commercial clients. These include owner-managed businesses, SME’s, multi-national corporations and charities on a local, regional and national level.

Employment law is a fast moving and ever changing area of practice. Not only can we guide employee and employer clients through any matters arising out of a current restructuring and reorganisation programme (including redundancies, settlement agreements, discrimination issues and employment tribunal claims) – we will actively engage with our employer clients to ensure that their employment contracts, service agreements and wider procedures are up to date, to protect the business should an issue arise.

Our employment team works closely with our corporate team to provide expert input and assistance with corporate transactions, including transfer of undertakings (TUPE) aspects of corporate acquisitions and mergers.

We have also created a fixed fee employment advice retainer scheme, which can be tailored to the requirements of your particular business.

Recent employment work carried out by our team includes:

• Providing advice to numerous employees of a pharmaceutical firm during the course of a substantial restructuring exercise

• Advising on all employment law aspects relating to the sale of a significant part of a client’s business, involving multifaceted issues concerning the transfer of staff under TUPE.

• Devising a flexible template fixed-term employment contract which allowed the employer to second employees to group companies all over the world, for any period of time.

• Advising on the application of TUPE to a large outsourcing project and secured appropriate protection for our client in the contractual documentation.

• Training a client’s managers on how to effectively manage and fairly dismiss under-performing employees.

Services for Employers

Employment law is constantly evolving and the tide of employment regulation is unlikely to recede in the near future. Our team is experienced at relieving the burden this places on employers with practical advice and assistance, including on the following:

• Employment Contracts

• Employee handbooks, policies and procedures

• Settlement Agreements

• Disciplinary and grievance procedures

• Discrimination

• Dismissals and redundancy

• Restrictive Covenants

• Employment tribunal and court claims

• TUPE (transfer of business) procedures

• Maternity and paternity rights

Services for Employees

We understand that a good working environment is important. If a problem does arise at work, it can cause anxiety and stress, and affect your performance. There are laws in place to provide protection for employees, and we would encourage you speak to us at the earliest opportunity, so that we can advise you on the best way of handling difficult situations or disputes in the work place.

We are experienced at providing advice to employees on a whole range of issues including:

• Settlement Agreements

• Dismissals and redundancy

• Employment Contracts

• Employee handbooks, policies and procedures

• Disciplinary and grievance procedures

• Discrimination

• Restrictive Covenants

• Employment tribunal and court claims

• Maternity and paternity rights

Publications - Employment Review

Employment Review contains articles on a range of employment law topics. If you would like to discuss any of the articles in more detail, please do not hesitate to contact us.